Questions

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

While language as the medium ___________ thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's influence, in other _____________ it is like the skin of the body; a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought ___________ a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so careless use of language __________ indulged reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly _____________, illogical, and inaccurate in its thinking.

increasingly _____________, illogical, and

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Showing strong feeling

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

Insatiable greed for riches

Jammu and Kashmir Rifles is 

Where is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka?

When the offices of the President and Vice­President fall vacant simultaneously, who acts as President?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

beating around the bush

In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.